Latest Wind Power company news
More than 45,500 people have visited Puget Sound Energy's Renewable Energy Center since its opening in 2008, with thousands coming each month during the tourist season. To celebrate the 50,000th visitor to its Renewable Energy Center near Ellensburg, Wash., Puget Sound Energy will honor the lucky individual with the opportunity to name Turbine A-1, one of the best producing wind turbines at the highest point of PSE’s Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility, where the center is located.
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The 150-megawatt Spring Valley Wind Project will be Nevada’s first major wind project and is expected to be generating electricity by late 2011. The project would create more than 150 jobs during the construction phase and approximately 10 permanent positions.
NV Energy and Pattern Energy Group LP announced that the two companies have entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement for the sale of energy produced from the Spring Valley Wind Project to be located in eastern Nevada.
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The SBHS (Scottish Biomass Heat Scheme), unveiled by Jim Mather, Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, will give grants of up to 40 per cent of project costs, capped at £100,000. The funding is open to small and medium-sized businesses to install renewable energy heating systems.
SMEs in England and Scotland can also borrow £5,000 to £200,000 interest-free for the installation of renewable energy or energy efficient plant – such as wind turbines, Solar PV and Biomass.
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NRG Energy, Inc. and Enel North America, Inc. have closed an agreement for the sale of NRG’s terrestrial wind development company, Padoma Wind Power LLC (Padoma), to Enel North America (ENA).
Based in La Jolla, California, Padoma is developing about 4,000 megawatts (MW) of potential projects in California which, once built, will help the state meet its Renewable Portfolio Standard target of 33% of retail sales from eligible renewable energy resources by 2020. Enel North America will retain th... [more]
Power-One, Inc. has delivered its 2.5 megawatt (MW) Inverter for use in large off-shore and on-shore wind turbines to a leading US wind turbine manufacturing company. It is expected that the inverters will be deployed in an off-shore European multi-gigawatt (GW) wind farm under development.
With the delivery of the 2.5 MW Inverter as its entry into the large wind market, Power-One has built on its technology to provide the renewable energy industry with solutions for large-scale projects. The... [more]
The Langford Wind Power Project is a 150 megawatt (MW) wind farm 25 miles south of San Angelo, Texas.
NRG Energy, Inc. has announced it has begun commercial operations at the Langford wind farm. NRG subsidiary, Padoma Wind Power, developed the project that is capable of powering more than 100,000 Texas homes with emission-free electricity.
The project’s 100 General Electric 1.5 MW turbine generators are expected to generate more than 525,000 MW hours of wind energy per year, which will be ... [more]
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